Christmas in downtown Bluffton in 1950. There's Santa with a Santa Halloween mask. Our guess is that Bob Crow and Paul Steiner on working the PA system.
We don't know the identity of Santa, but we are going to make a stab on the ID of the kids on the platform. On the far left, it looks like Dan Lehman, then Francis Harkness, Judy Harness and Donna McClure. That's as far as we can go.
This scene must have been from a Bluffton Business Men's holiday promotion.
Allow me to explain the photo. It was taken in the days when Truman was in the White House. The scene is from our family yard at 201 N. Lawn Avenue, at the corner of Lawn and Elm.
My brother, Rudolf, was born in 1943 or was it '42?. He was named after his great-grandfather, Rudolf Althaus. Well, everything was going along fine until Gene Autry recorded Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer. That was in 1949, the year I was born.
Nelson D. Schumacher, 92, of Bluffton, died on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011 at Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton. He was born in Pandora, on Dec. 30, 1918 to the late Menno and Lena (Diller) Schumacher. He married Betty Habegger on Oct. 9, 1949. She died on April 9, 1981. He married Jean Basinger on December 27, 1985 and she survives.
I wanted to take a moment to once again thank the diligent employees we have in the Bluffton Utilities Dept. No matter what time of day they are there to help you with your emergency situation with calm and professionalism. Thank you
Kyle Apkarian
Triplett Corp.
Bob Inniger has joined Citizens National Bank as vice president, business banking officer.
With commercial and agricultural lending experience, Inniger serves Hancock, Hardin, Logan and Wood counties, where he is responsible for establishing new commercial relationships for CNB.
"I am extremely happy to be working with Citizens National Bank because it has a strong history of agricultural and real estate lending in the communities it serves," said Inniger. His office will be in Bluffton.
Richland Manor donated a significant share of the $4,475 its employees raised this holiday season to the Bluffton Community Assisitance Program's food pantry.
On Dec. 22 Barry Schneck, community service representative of Richland Manor, presented the check to Sarah Shank, food pantry representative, and Mona Reichenbach, treasurer of the Bluffton Community Assistance Corporation. Helping accept the check were Sarah and Phil Shank's children, Zoe and Mason, on behalf of the food pantry.
In order to raise money for youth services programming, the Bluffton Public Library is now recruiting cooks for its 2012 "Cook for Books" Chili Cook-Off on Saturday, Feb. 25. Amateur cooks must register by Tuesday, Jan. 17. Each participating cook will be asked to prepare and donate 7 to 8 quarts of hot chili for the event. "The chili may be traditional or inventive," said youth services coordinator Rikki Unterbrink. "We just need it to be edible!"
